Log Cabin Craft #1 ~ Construction Paper and Craft Sticks
We are using the Little House series as a basis for half of our history this year. In doing this we started the year with a week long camp where the kids got to “Live a Long Time Ago” in the 19th Century. They wore time period appropriate costumes, and learned things like how to start a fire without matches/lighters, cooking over a fire, communication methods, hunting methods, and so much more.
Log Cabin Craft
My little one loves to do crafts and insisted on doing a craft this past week so I quickly did a search for log cabins thinking it would make an appropriately themed craft. This log cabin craft is the craft that inspired what I did with Ava. Since she is my creative child she likes to have wiggle room to use her own ideas so I pulled out the supplies, showed her a little of what the craft was going to be and then let her have at it.
Supply List:
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- liquid glue, scissors
- large blue construction paper (we ended up using 2 because she wanted her log cabin to be so large)
- sheets of construction paper in brown and green for the trees
- large, regular, small, and colored craft sticks (the color is not authentic but Ava likes color, you could chose not to use colored ones and could also use paint to make colored ones)
- brown pipe cleaners (we used these for branches on the trees to add extra dimension to the paper)
- paint (she wanted to paint grass into her picture, and eventually painted the Popsicle sticks of the log cabin with brown paint)
Directions
1. We taped 2 large pieces of construction paper together, and then Ava used the various craft sticks to lay out her log cabin.
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3. Then we filled in the spaces with glue and Ava took a stack of sticks to fill in the house with logs. I used scissors to cut some of the sticks to the correct size.
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September 25, 2012 @ 2:31 pm
That”s so cool, love it.
October 1, 2012 @ 10:36 pm
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